Saturday, 18 July 2015

The Medium Version of The Long Game

Hello! We here, at D4sign, have been playing many games and sometimes it is easy to lose track of things. True to its name, we have been playing The Long Game for a long time, and I thought it would be a good idea to provide a summary. If you're new to the game, this should help you catch up, and if you're very familiar with it, this should refresh your memory. I will be updating this as we play and further details can be found in earlier Long Game posts!

I also found that while this was much shorter, it was still longer than the average reader may wish to peruse. Therefore, I have written an even shorter summary here.

Party arrives at Eldengarr, Hyacintho's capital, disables the port of ships

Party defeats Genasi priestess of Rayden, Kalgar cuts off her head

Party (Alvyn) threatens country, tells them to wake up, take back their own strength

Party recovers body of Kord, puts it in Kalgar's bag

Tong uses Codex Caduceus to spread scrolls and knowledge of Ioun

Party sails to Chalybs

Doomguard had successfully moved headquarters to Crimson Fields, Alvyn gets key from Tribulus

Party meets Galvin, warforged, High Deacon of the Temple of Kord

All agree to lock body of Kord in Doomguard vault

The Ship Hits the Fan

Kalgar meets Thunderfood, Battle Priest of the Order of Kord, in Chalybs

Giant explains the Order of Kord, group devoted to the god, rank and power bestowed upon those who earn it.

Kalgar meets Dwight and Haymitch, delights temple with stories, asks if any want to join him, to meet him at the nearest bar in an hour, or The Crimson Fields in a month

Tong entered the Reverie, found it not empty, but with people from Hyacintho, reading the books he had left, including one warforged which disturbed Tong. He momentarily felt compelled to recruit more followers

Alvyn had problems with Trixie because he thought she'd spurn him, now that he has now magic

Kalgar names the ship, the Shockrosia, party sails around Aerugo, Niger, toward the Crimson Fields

In the Doomguard vault, the party sees the cage Alvyn had been kept in at Aes, also discover a crate which makes you forget it as soon as you look at it

Many arrived from Hyacintho and Chalybs, including Dwight and Haymitch

Dwight received replica of Posse McToes' sword

Haymitch received replica of Corellon's Blessed Sword

Alvyn and the "scoff" Dwarves repaired and upgraded the Shockrosia into an airship

The Fall of Baelfire and the Rise of the Arbiters

The party surprised and defeated Baelfire, who revealed his true form upon death

Kalgar put Baelfire's head in his bag

Mercury showed up, warned party about their actions, tells them to go to Hiems

sets up meeting with Admiral Draxia, old-fashioned, and willing to listen to Kalgar

listens to Kalgar's adventures and spends the night with him

Intrigue with a Side of Indigestion

Kalgar ordered Kildrak, Vondal, and Logann, members of his crew, to repair and upgrade the ship, using whatever materials were available.

Tong raised concern with Kalgar that the path they tread may lead to Kalgar's death.

Kalgar responded that he was doing what had to be done, and that the party was the only group that could get it done.

Tong said he has walked away from his own past, could Kalgar not do the same?

Kalgar told Tong that the entire world is building for war, if they could create a stronghold, a place to strike out from, take a stand, they could push back against the insanity of the current world.

They needed to start fixing things.

Perhaps this is the first thing they will be able to..unbreak, Tong responded.

Meanwhile, Alvyn had been scouting the island and the outpost.

Kalgar asked crew to also attempt to fix up Aesian outpost.

Scroll of Mindfulness, "The hard man's soul is like hardtack, impossible to chew."

Tong just made up a Scroll!

Tong began teaching his followers via the Reverie with renewed energy.

Alvyn took an Aesian cannon, handed it to some more of Kalgar's crew, and asked them to "make it better".

Alvyn made a cloak for Kalgar from hide taken from the necks of dead dragons, still preserved in Kalgar's Bag of Holding

Malark Chenn, one of Kalgar's crew, had been killed.

Rescued in the Crimson Fields, Chenn was an entertainer, always able to make someone smile.

Chenn's body was ripped open from the inside. A blood trail moved toward the window off the ship.

Despite investigation by the party, as well as Sora's only arcane user, Porset, a Storm Genasi, the party was unable to determine exactly what had caused this.

Although they were fairly certain it was a monster from the Iron Tower

Kalgar told Sora all that he could, excluding any mention of dragons, and asked for her help.

Porset determined that the creature may have gone west to some Aesian islands.

Sora said she had not heard from her western patrol in some time.

The party started to kayak toward the islands

The Caves of Calamity

The party found ruins and a tunnel leading underground on one of the islands

The tunnel was half-filled with water, and seemed to head back toward the outpost

Kalgar remembered that such tunnels sometimes existed between outposts as another means of movement

The party found a female Aesian dragonborn, one of the western patrol, dead, floating in the tunnel

Kalgar took her along

The tunnel lead to an even deeper channel of water, the only way through.

Alvyn went first, made it to the other side, jumped up to a stalagtite and hung from the cave ceiling.

Tong made it through quickly, couldn't find Alvyn, was very worried.

Kalgar was slowed by carrying the guard, and was grappled and attacked by an unseen force underwater. Despite everything he tried, including inflating his special armour Alvyn had made for him, he could not bring himself and the guard through the tunnel. So he had to abandon her.

Outside of the tunnel, the party was tackled by a quickly moving creature, which continued down the tunnel toward the outpost.

The party realized it would be faster to go back, get the kayaks, and sail back to the outpost.

Alvyn used Sending to warn Sora and the outpost

The party made it back, the crew of the Shockrosia were vigilantly readying themselves.

Inside the outpost, something had grabbed Porset, dragging him down into the storeroom under the outpost

Sora and her men were guarding the door, not engaging

The party went in, saw much water damage, barrels of oil and blackpowder, and a horrible alien queen creature and many of her children!

The Queen's Lair

The queen was laying eggs, while her creatures crawled around the room, climbed the walls

One of the creatures killed Porset

The party attacked the creatures!

Alvyn's new weapon, a rifle made from an Aesian boarding cannon, was quite impressive!

The party was surrounded.

The Last of the Aesian Outpost

The party killed the queen's creatures

The queen stepped forward to attack, while some of her newly-hatching children grabbed at the party's faces!

she kills 25 Aesians instantly, turning them to ash, bringing death count to over 60

possession leaves her, Tong sends her soul down a spiritual river in The Reverie

Deep Watch Bay (Part 1: On the Way)

The party left Windle's Landing, Alvyn wanting not to draw any more attention, and Kalgar knowing that being put in jail would not help their cause.

Tong finally connected with Ting Tang Wong Gong, through meditation, in the Reverie

Tong's former master said that Tong was the Mist Knight, the one true bridge between the Iodolawn, the Reverie, and Ioun He told Tong to build on the lessons, and to let him go in peace. With that, Ting Tang Wong Gong ascended into The Astral Sea.

Alvyn temporarily changed the name of the Shockrosia to Kord's Might.

The fleet passed by a few Aesian military ships on the way to Deep Watch Bay without incident.

Alvyn, Tong, and Kalgar devised plans for storming Deep Watch Base, including fleet operations and "frog men" (soldiers who could remain under the ship via potions of water breathing) who could be called in as reinforcements.